Month: June 2011

I’ve been an Slicehost customer for years, and I vividly recall that the sign up process went something like this; Sign up in the website and enter billing information (1 minute), Create a simple VM with Fedora (5 minutes), SSH into the machine and start using it (<1 minute), So basically within 7 minutes of…

A couple of weeks ago I migrated my home computer to Fedora 15 featuring the new GNOME 3 user interface among other significant changes.  At first it was quite a struggle to get used to, I almost rolled back to Fedora 14.  After persevering for the first few days it got easier to work with,…

UPDATE:  Google have finally provided a native Linux client, just login to http://music.google.com/ and click ‘Add Music’ to install it. Last week I received a Beta invite for Google Music.  I jumped straight onto it only to meet the message “Music Manager is only available for PC and Mac”.  Being an avid Linux user I…

I recently upgraded my work laptop to the new MacBook Pro 17″ (2.3Ghz i7, 8GB RAM), being ever the tinkerer I was keen to replace the stock HDD for one of the latest SATA III (6Gbps) solid-state drives. After a brief bit of research it boiled down to two options OCZ Vertex 3 240GB or,…

World IPv6 Day is fast approaching (June 8th 2011), excerpt from their website; On 8 June, 2011, Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai and Limelight Networks will be amongst some of the major organisations that will offer their content over IPv6 for a 24-hour “test flight”. The goal of the Test Flight Day is to motivate organizations…

I just noticed that the Earthquake Data I’ve been collating had some minor errors (no lat/long), a quickity quick fix to some of the regular expressions and its back to normal.  A total of ~31,020 earthquake events, updated daily from data provided by the fine people involved in the GEOFON Extended Virtual Network project.